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L'Amour de la vie / Négore le lâche

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L'Amour de la vie
Seul, sans vivres ni munitions, un homme marche dans le Grand Nord canadien. Sa seule chance, s'il veut sauver sa vie, est de marcher, toujours marcher, en espérant atteindre l'océan Arctique où, peut-être, il sera recueilli par un baleinier. Un matin, un loup encore plus affamé que lui se met à le suivre, guettant le moindre signe de faiblesse pour bondir sur sa proie.

Négore le lâche
Cette histoire se déroule dans l'Alaska milieu du XIXe siècle, avant l'acquisition du territoire par les États-Unis. La tribu de Négore fuit devant une bande Russe impitoyable quand Négore, le personnage principal, disparaît. De ce fait, son peuple, y compris Oona, la femme qu'il aime, lui considèrent lâche. Puis Négore retourne et explique son comportement à Oona, qui admet qu'elle s'est peut-être trompé en lui. Mais comme il n'y a pas de témoins pour confirmer sa version, il doit se prouver à elle avec un acte de bravoure égale à celle de son père, Kinoos l'aveugle, dont la bravoure d'un affrontement précédent avec les Russes est légendaire.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 1993

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Jack London

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John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".

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